Andrews High School - Gold and Black Yearbook (Andrews, SC)

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Senior Superlatives MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED Nan Dee Evans Ronald Steedly MOST ATHLETIC Dixie Mercer George Wildes WITT IEST Ruby Thomas Dennis Main

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Class Prophecy Fate has seen fit to bestow upon me a great and terrible gift. Combined with a superhuman insight which has always allowed me to see and know things for beyond the power of anyone else, I have in my possession a strange door with a magic keyhole through which I may view the years to come and all things that are to be. Through it I see all manner of strange things and the strangest things of all are the members of the Sr. class of '53, Bear with me as I go intoa Catalepsytranse and I shall reveal to you many thin S. girst I see Mae Antwine in her crisp, white nurses uniform as she checks the pulse of a rich old bachelor hoping that he still has strength enough to Pop the question. Now I see a great cloud of smoke and there is a thundering sound? Oh, yes, lt's R. L, Bone going to work in Aiken in the same car he used to drive back in 1953. Here is a sight to tug at your heart strings. If I didn't feel that it was my bounden duty I should try to keep this from your young innocent souls. I see the Reverend Lee Blakely trying to preach the gospel to Harry Taylor who is is deeply engrossed in the pages of a copy of Esquire that he cannot hear a word. I see great things for Jack Coker. He is now part owner of Swinnie's de- livery truck - the back part. Jack says he doesn't really like to travel anyway. Emma Clemons is still looking for a young, handsome millionaire who can give her a private swimming pool. Nan Dee Evans, our class artist, has just finished her masterpiece. She is going to receive the highest reward for a work of art given in this country just as soon as the critics decide whether it is a rose or a cow. Joyce Fulton has been sailing up and down Black River in her new yacht. Did you know that twenty years from now yachts are going to have paddles ? I see Jack Goodwin behind the meat counter of the Oak Grove grocery. He has just won nation-wide recognition as being the man with heaviest thumb. Now I see a successful businessmang it is Ralph Heape, who now owns his own service station. Nina Jones has taken the place of Mrs. Vernon Blakeley, who is the former Irene Mc Daniel, at Collier's Modern Pharmacy. Floyd Lambert is still seen at Margaret's door every Saturday night. They are trying to decide whether they know each other well enough or not. Griffin Leland is running in the next presidential election. The main plank in his platform is Elect me and I'll spend all my vacations in South Carolina. Dennis Main heads the list of TV comedians. He says he's going to be even funnier when he learns how to read the script. Dickie Mercer, basketball coach for Andrews High School, is urging her girls on with Remember the spirit of '53. Mary Alice, what is her name now: it used to be McCants - can be heard softly crcioning as she tries to sooth her little ones to sleep. Peggy Ozburn is helping her husband, Melton S., run a grocery store at Warsaw. It has become such a habit until they still write each other every day. Jimmy Smith is an admiral in the United States Navy. He says he'1l begin making money when he doesn't have to spend his whole salary on sea-sick re- medies. We have a new addition to our school library. It is a. set of Steedly's En- cyclopedias compiled by Ronald Steedly. Ruby Thomas is still trying to sweet-talk everyone into being her slave. Wyndell Taylor has just been named top pro-football player of the nation. Dr. Billy Whitley has discovered an elixer which insures perpetual youth. He refuses to share the secret with his old classmates and has drunk it all him- self. Now he's busy trying to perfect a three cornered surgical uniform. George Wildes has recently taken the place of Charlie Walker at radio station WDKD, only he is more popular even than Charlie Walker. He has four petitions against him. Faye Mixon is now manager of Mack's 5 and 10 cent store, She is announcing a sale on bicycle pumps, shoe horns, and fine tooth combs. Weldon Smith has just finished inventing a new gadget to put on his Old- smobile. It is called a girl snatcher. I must leave you now. May you prophet by what I have revealed to you. Joyc e Fulton C LASS PROPHE T 20

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Last Will and Testament We, the class of 1952, being of sound mind and body, do hereby will the following: I, Nina Jones, do hereby leave my friendly manner to LaVerne Williams. I, Irene McDaniel, do hereby leave my knowledge to Vernon Blakely so he will hurry and finish school. I, Dickie Mercer, do hereby leave my careful driving to Jimmy Dunn. I, Mary Alice McCants, do hereby leave my love for Macedonia High to Katherine Thomas, hoping that she will be as successful as I. I, Mae Antwine, do hereby leave my broad smile to D, C, Herring, hoping she will use it more often than I. I, Peggy Ozburn, do hereby leave my love for Ronald Steedly to Judy Mercer. I, Ronald Steedly, do hereby leave my position as editor of the Yellow Jacket to Bonnie Norton, and my knowledge of French to those who need it. I, Nan Dee Evans, do hereby leave my ability to say Oh in French class to Roberta Evans. I, R, L, Bone, do hereby leave everybody wondering who Maggie is. I, Lee Blakeley, do hereby leave my ability to learn French to Buddy Bauer, hoping that he will learn more than I did. I, Weldon Smith, do hereby leave my knowledge of English to Jeanell Ray. I, Harry Taylor, do hereby leave my love for Miss Wilson to Jack Britt. I, Dennis Main, do hereby leave my learning ability to Lavern Precious Elliott. I, Joyce Fulton, do hereby leave my sweet disposition to Betty Jean Robinson. I, Floyd Lambert, do hereby leave my love for women to Ralph Blake. I, Wyndell Taylor, do hereby leave my ability to play football to Wayne Atkins because he needs it. I, Ruby Thomas, do hereby leave my giggles to Betty Ann Fulton. I, Griffin Leland, do hereby leave my ability to drive a school bus to J, B. Norton. I, Faye Mixon, do hereby leave my typing speed to next year's fastest typer. Could it be Bessie ? I, Emma Clemons, do hereby leave my love for football to the whole school. They need it!!! I, Billy Whitley, do hereby leave my ability to pass a football to Red Long, hoping he can use it better than I. I, Jack Goodwin, do hereby leave my height to Wilson Lambert. Signed, Sealed and Delivered on this lst day of June 1953. Ronald Steedly, Jimmy Smith Class Lawyers 22